Every marketing strategy you create for your business should be designed to ultimately deliver on one of your marketing goals. Chances are your two biggest goals are likely to either makes sales or to develop a list of eager people who are almost, almost ready to pull...
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How to Find and Know YOUR Ideal Customer
Figuring out how to find your ideal customer and then taking the time to get to know them are quite possibly the most important things you can do for your small business. Think about it. Your business exists for your customers. You open your doors every morning for...
A Procrastinator’s Guide to Planning Your Marketing Content in Advance
This probably isn’t a great thing to admit as an entrepreneur, but I’m a bit of a procrastinator. Especially when it comes to the things I don’t like to do (ahem, writing social media posts). But I got sick of feeling like I was constantly on my back foot in my...
10 Must-Have Apps for Growing Your Small Business
When it comes to running your small business, you're only really as good as the applications and resources you use. You could have a stellar product and a kick-ass business plan, but every small business owner knows that time is where the money is. If you're...
The Free & Easy Way to Make Any PDF Fillable
Online courses and free webinars seem to be the IT thing these days, especially if you’re a blogger, content creator, or social media savant. In order to create the ultimate, Insta-worthy course experience, we often spend a ton of time creating custom workbooks and...
10 of Our Best Time-Saving Tips for Canva
We are big fans of Canva around here. I’m in it daily, doing one thing or another - creating business documents, getting my Instagram posts and stories ready for the week, building out custom client templates for their various marketing needs, and creating new...
Easy Ways to Make Your Blog Posts SEO-Friendly
[et_pb_text content_tablet="When I talk to clients about their biggest struggles and confusions in marketing their businesses, Search is a super common complaint. And I totally get it. Anytime the word “algorithm” gets thrown around, my palms start to sweat and I can...
7 Tips to Your Best Blog Post Titles That Get More Clicks
For any small business owner in the digital age, your blog is one of your best secret weapons for achieving the digital marketing trifecta – more leads, a bigger email list, and an engaged community of brand advocates. But your post is only as good as the title that...
The Best Tools For Leveling Up Your Social Media
There are two things I know for sure as a business owner. The first is there will never be enough hours in the day. The second is that no matter how much social media might grate on me sometimes, the fact remains that it’s a profitable place to be for small business...
The Key Components to Your Best Instagram Business Profile
Back in the good old days, I was an occasional Instagrammer. I posted once a month, if that. I’d snap a photo of my dog or my vacation or the killer oatmeal I had for breakfast and throw it up on Insta with a Nashville filter for all my friends to see. I didn’t really...
Easy Ways to Maximize Your Exposure and Get Seen on Instagram
If you’re just starting out in your business or if you’ve been around awhile and are looking to expand your reach in ways that won’t gobble up that modest ad budget you’ve allotted, Instagram can be a great place to be. The beauty of all social media platforms is that...
Keys to a Content Strategy That Amplifies Your Brand
Raise your hand if lately your content development has been more sporadic than strategic. Or if you constantly feel like you’re yelling into the deep, dark void that is the internet and hearing nothing but echoes in return. Or maybe you feel like you’re constantly on...
How to Write the Perfect About Me Page to Hook Your Audience
The other day I was chatting with a client and she was lamenting the fact that she was struggling with the content for her About Me page. Man, could I relate. I rewrote my About Me page at least ten times, and am in the process of rewriting it again. After my...
Purchase Funnel: What It Is and How It Can Revolutionize Your Marketing
When I say the word 'funnel' what's the first thing that comes to your mind? For me, it's the little toy funnel that we used to take with us to the beach when we were kids. You'd pour sand into the top and watch it come streaming out the bottom (right onto my beach...
7 Ways to Cross-Promote Your Content and Save Yourself Hours
Guys, I'm going to drop two big truths on you this Friday morning. Truth #1 - Time is your most precious commodity. It's the one thing in this world you can't make more of. You can make more money, you can come up with more ideas, eventually you will have more toilet...
Easy Ways to Spring Clean Your Marketing
Ahhh Spring. That glorious time of fresh flowers, fresh air, fresh starts. I'm not typically a Spring person (I'm more of a Summer and Fall kind of gal) but this year, I'm waiting for Spring like a kid waiting for Santa Claus - a little jittery, a little impatiently,...
